Journal articles
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Stadsbrug Nijmegen: a beauty with waves and curves | Steel Construction | 2/2015 | 142-143 | News | |
Schlaich, Jörg | Hyperbolic structures. Shukhov's Lattice Towers - Forerunners of Modern Lightweight Construction. From Beckh, M. | Steel Construction | 2/2015 | 143-144 | Book review |
Announcement: Steel Construction 2/2015 | Steel Construction | 2/2015 | 144 | Announcement | |
Content: Steel Construction 1/2015 | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | Content | ||
Fischer, Oliver; Mangerig, Ingbert; Mensinger, Martin; Siebert, Geralt; Inoue, Susumu; Sugiura, Kunitomo; Yamaguchi, Takashi; Ohyama, Osamu | 10th Japanese-German Bridge Symposium | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 1 | Editorial |
Borjigin, Sudanna; Kim, Chul-Woo; Chang, Kai-Chun; Sugiura, Kunitomo | Non-linear seismic response analysis of vehicle-bridge interactive systems | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 2-8 | Articles |
AbstractThe intention of this study is to investigate how vehicles on highway bridges affect the seismic responses of the bridges under strong ground motions. Most highway bridge design codes do not consider the live load in the seismic design of highway bridges because of the low probability of the two events of the critical live load and an earthquake occurring at the same time. As a result, little attention has been paid to the influence of vehicle loads on the seismic responses of highway bridges. However, considering the high probability of traffic jams on urban roads, it is preferable to examine and clarify the dynamic interaction effect of vehicles on road bridges while subjected to seismic loads. In this study, the vehicle-bridge-ground motion interactions are realized by combining ABAQUS and MATLAB. ABAQUS provides a GUI environment to establish the numerical bridge model and apply the seismic forces, while MATLAB provides a platform to control the iterations in both time and force increments. As a preliminary study, a simplified 3D pier-beam bridge model loaded with multiple vehicles with two degrees of freedom moving at a constant speed has been considered. When subjected to identical, strong seismic loadings, it was observed that the transverse accelerations of the bridge with moving vehicles are smaller than those without moving vehicles. Further, permanent deformation occurs after earthquakes because of yielding at the bottom of the pier; it was observed that the permanent deformations of the bridge with moving vehicles tend to be smaller than those without moving vehicles. x | |||||
Tsubomoto, Masahiko; Kawatani, Mitsuo; Mori, Kengo | Traffic-induced vibration analysis of a steel girder bridge compared with a concrete bridge | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 9-14 | Articles |
AbstractAt the preliminary design stage for a highway bridge 81 m long, a three-span continuous girder, including a span of about 30 m, is preferable from the point of construction cost. Generally, the concern is that girder bridges with spans of 30 m, which have a fundamental natural frequency of about 3 Hz, have large traffic-induced vibrations due to the coupling dynamic response with heavy vehicles having a bouncing natural frequency of about 3 Hz. Furthermore, large traffic-induced vibration in girder bridges causes low-frequency sound (LFS) as one of the environmental vibration problems. Two kinds of girder bridge with a length of 81 m - a concrete hollow slab bridge and an eight-girder steel bridge with the same spans - are proposed. For assessing the low-frequency sound radiated from bridges, firstly, the traffic-induced vibrations of two kinds of girder bridge are compared with each other by analysing the coupling dynamic response of bridges due to moving heavy vehicles in a dynamic system. x | |||||
Elbe Bridge at Schönebeck wins Structural Award 2014 in the category "Highway or Railway Bridge Structures" | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 14 | News | |
Hashimoto, Kunitaro; Kayano, Makio; Suzuki, Yasuo; Sugiura, Kunitomo; Watanabe, Eiichi | Structural safety assessment of continuous girder bridge with fatigue crack in web plate | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 15-20 | Articles |
AbstractThis paper, which focuses on a fatigue crack found in a main girder of a continuous steel girder bridge, assesses the remaining structural safety of the steel bridge with such a fatigue crack in order to judge whether or not urgent action such as closure to traffic or necessary temporary repairs and strengthening should be carried out. Therefore, an elastic-plastic finite displacement analysis is carried out for the continuous three-span non-composite steel girder bridge with four main girders in which a fatigue crack about 1.1 m long in the web plate of the main girder was discovered during an inspection. From the analysis results it is found that the load redistribution function of the multiple main girder system was effective and the remaining load-carrying capacity of such a bridge system is such that there will be no sudden collapse of the entire bridge. x | |||||
Kennedy, Stephen J.; Martino, Aldo E. | SPS bridge decks for new bridges and strengthening of existing bridge decks | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 21-27 | Articles |
AbstractThe sandwich plate system (SPS) is a structural composite material made up of two metal plates bonded to a polyurethane elastomer core. SPS delivers high strength and stiffness, making it an excellent alternative to conventional stiffened steel and reinforced concrete. For strengthening of orthotropic bridge decks, SPS Overlay can be used to create a stiff bridge deck without removing the original plates. The renewed deck improves the distribution of wheel loads across the longitudinal stiffening elements, decreases deck curvatures associated with large concentrated wheel loads, extends the fatigue life of fatigue-critical welds and increases the life of the wearing surface and the whole bridge. For new bridge applications, prefabricated SPS bridge deck plates reduce the dead load by up to 70 % compared with concrete bridge decks, thus allowing bridges to carry significantly greater live load without the need for girder or pier strengthening. Deck replacement can be completed while leaving the steel or concrete girders in place or, where speed of erection is critical, pre-assembled longitudinal deck-girder units can be used. x | |||||
Lener, Gerhard | Steel bridges - numerical simulation of total service life including fracture mechanic concepts | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 28-32 | Articles |
AbstractThe assessment of the total service life of a steel structure should gain importance in the near future due to the increasing significance of building preservation and building modernization. The main cause of the failure of existing structural steelwork under cyclic loading effects is material fatigue. Most steel structures are, however, failure-tolerant. For economic reasons, this behaviour can be considered by including the crack propagation phase in the assessment. This contribution presents newly developed software tools and the results of some simulations of the total lifetimes of existing structures. x | |||||
Mano, Toshihisa; Mangerig, Ingbert | Tensile load-carrying behaviour of elastomeric bearings | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 33-41 | Articles |
AbstractElastomeric bearings for seismic isolation applications can be subjected to tensile loads depending on the geometrical configuration, high vertical seismic motion or excessive horizontal deformation due to the elongated-period horizontal motion. It is a known fact that cavities develop within elastomeric material when it undergoes a certain amount of tensile force in a very constrained condition since a high hydrostatic tensile stress builds up. Once these cavities have developed, the tensile stiffness of the bearing drops dramatically. This paper contributes to understanding this phenomenon itself and its influence on the basic properties of elastomeric bearings. For this purpose, two types of elastomeric bearing were tested and the cavitation phenomenon observed. Moreover, those test results are compared with the FE simulation results from the modified hyperelastic material model with the cavity damage criterion. The two-phase softening model presented here can simulate the real softening behaviour of elastomeric bearings well, and it may even help us grasp a better insight into the cavitation phenomenon. x | |||||
Prof. Udo Peil awarded honorary doctorate | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 41 | People | |
Höglund, Torsten | Cold-formed members - comparison between tests and a unified design method for beam-columns | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 42-52 | Articles |
AbstractIn [1] a unified method for the design of steel beam-columns is presented. The method has been checked for rolled steel beam-columns and extruded aluminium beam-columns. It is included in Eurocode 9 [19] for aluminium members and it is proposed to be included also in Eurocode 3 Part 1-3 [16] as well, but then it needs to be checked for typical cold-formed sections. x | |||||
Enercon wind turbine erected by Liebherr crane | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 52 | News | |
Bedair, Osama | An analytical expression to determine "realistic" shear buckling stress in cold-formed lipped channels | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 53-58 | Articles |
AbstractCurrent North American and European design provisions ignore the rotational restraint when evaluating local web shear buckling stresses in cold-formed steel channels. This paper offers a new analytical expression for computing local buckling shear stresses in cold-formed channel members taking into account the rotational restraints imposed by the flanges and the lips. The expression derived is suitable for hand calculations and can replace current code expressions in order to achieve economical steel designs. Comparisons with existing design formulas currently used in practice for the limiting conditions show a difference within 5 %. x | |||||
Phänomenta Science Center in Lüdenscheid, Germany | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 58 | News | |
Nützel, Oswald; Saul, Reiner | Long-term corrosion protection for bridge cables with butyl rubber tapes using the ATIS Cableskin® system | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 59-64 | Reports |
AbstractATIS Cableskin® is a corrosion protection system for bridge cables which uses proven materials to strike out in a new direction. These innovative ideas mean that, for the first time, corrosion protection work on scaffolds and in enclosures will be a thing of the past, and the costs and traffic restrictions are massively reduced. It is worth highlighting the extremely long lifetime of this corrosion protection. x | |||||
Winterstetter, Thomas; Alkan, Mustafa; Berger, Radu; Watanabe, Maiko; Toth, Agatha; Sobek, Werner | Engineering complex geometries - the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 65-71 | Reports |
AbstractThe present paper describes the engineering design by Werner Sobek for the new Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, a masterpiece of 3D freeform architecture by Zaa Hadid. x | |||||
EUROFER: Chinese steel imports confuse buyers in Europe as Chinese steel producers exploit the export tax regime | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 71 | News | |
ECCS News: Steel Construction 1/2015 | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 72-74 | ECCS News | |
Call for entries: European Steel Design Awards 2015 | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 74-76 | News | |
Announcement: Steel Construction 1/2015 | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 76 | Announcement | |
ECCS individual membership | Steel Construction | 1/2015 | 76 | News | |
Content: Steel Construction 4/2014 | Steel Construction | 4/2014 | Content | ||